trueblackpercula
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Hello everyone,
Let me start off by saying it was a pleasure to meet everyone today and look forward to the next event. Below is the information that you guys asked me about.
**** disclaimer *****
Please do not over feed this stuff as It can cause high levels of phosphates and nitrates. I figured out that for my size tank and sps load that 5 mls a week was more then enough, so dose based on that number. 120 gallon tank about 30 gallon sump and I have 25 different sps and some are large.
I used this stuff and it works great like I explained Enjoy and if you have any questions let me know. I did use AA but stopped as it was causing a brown algae bloom in my tank. I was able to keep this stuff in my refrigerator for almost 90 days with no ill affects.
The below recipe will make about 800mls and I stored it in a glass jar designed for home made sauce.
Here is a link that we put together on different types of foods that we have tried.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2332173
Michael
Pappone Recipe Italian Coral Food (Updated 1/14/2007)
Materials:
5 Oysters
5 Mussels
5 Clams
5 Shrimp (NOT cocktail shrimp, the big scampi type w/o the head and the shell)
1 Tablespoon of Sugar (not corn syrup, etc.)
200 mL of RO/DI water
10 g of Red Algae (Palmaria palmata; Bisck uses Julian Sprung's brand)
and/or 10 g of Spirulina, 10 g of Nori (spirulina is what Bisck prefers)
"Methods: Make SURE that all ingredients are the freshest possible and DO NOT use frozen foods (unless it is impossible for you). Make sure everything "live" is rinsed and cleaned before putting it into the blender. Put all the ingredients into the blender and blend for 5 min, wait 2 min for it to cool, 5 more min blending, 2 min of waiting again, then finally another 5 min of blending (the pausing is so that the solution doesn't get too hot and "cook" from the heat of the blender/blades). Pour into cube forms (approx 10 mL each). Then freeze it all—you want to minimize how long everything is at room temperature.
Procedure: One hour prior to turning off your lights, you have the option of adding Amino acids to the tank*. (For example, 11pm Halides off, add AA 12am, actinics off, then add pappone). Take off the cup of your skimmer, but leave the skimmer running (so you don’t have a massive drop in O2 levels overnight). After the lights are off, start with only a ¼ of a cube per WEEK for every 400 L of tank water (approx 100 gallons). Be sure to measure NO3 and PO4 the next morning so that these parameters don't spike after feeding. You can reduce the amount fed if you are having nutrient problems. Also don’t forget to put the skimmer cup back on the next morning before the lights go back on.
*If everything is going well. It is good to wait and see how the tank is doing for awhile before trying this. The whole point here is that you don't want to change anything too fast, because nothing good happens quickly in this hobby. (Another method to grind up amino acid pills in the next batch of food; however Bisck found that it sometimes causes diatom outbreaks in his tank"
Let me start off by saying it was a pleasure to meet everyone today and look forward to the next event. Below is the information that you guys asked me about.
**** disclaimer *****
Please do not over feed this stuff as It can cause high levels of phosphates and nitrates. I figured out that for my size tank and sps load that 5 mls a week was more then enough, so dose based on that number. 120 gallon tank about 30 gallon sump and I have 25 different sps and some are large.
I used this stuff and it works great like I explained Enjoy and if you have any questions let me know. I did use AA but stopped as it was causing a brown algae bloom in my tank. I was able to keep this stuff in my refrigerator for almost 90 days with no ill affects.
The below recipe will make about 800mls and I stored it in a glass jar designed for home made sauce.
Here is a link that we put together on different types of foods that we have tried.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2332173
Michael
Pappone Recipe Italian Coral Food (Updated 1/14/2007)
Materials:
5 Oysters
5 Mussels
5 Clams
5 Shrimp (NOT cocktail shrimp, the big scampi type w/o the head and the shell)
1 Tablespoon of Sugar (not corn syrup, etc.)
200 mL of RO/DI water
10 g of Red Algae (Palmaria palmata; Bisck uses Julian Sprung's brand)
and/or 10 g of Spirulina, 10 g of Nori (spirulina is what Bisck prefers)
"Methods: Make SURE that all ingredients are the freshest possible and DO NOT use frozen foods (unless it is impossible for you). Make sure everything "live" is rinsed and cleaned before putting it into the blender. Put all the ingredients into the blender and blend for 5 min, wait 2 min for it to cool, 5 more min blending, 2 min of waiting again, then finally another 5 min of blending (the pausing is so that the solution doesn't get too hot and "cook" from the heat of the blender/blades). Pour into cube forms (approx 10 mL each). Then freeze it all—you want to minimize how long everything is at room temperature.
Procedure: One hour prior to turning off your lights, you have the option of adding Amino acids to the tank*. (For example, 11pm Halides off, add AA 12am, actinics off, then add pappone). Take off the cup of your skimmer, but leave the skimmer running (so you don’t have a massive drop in O2 levels overnight). After the lights are off, start with only a ¼ of a cube per WEEK for every 400 L of tank water (approx 100 gallons). Be sure to measure NO3 and PO4 the next morning so that these parameters don't spike after feeding. You can reduce the amount fed if you are having nutrient problems. Also don’t forget to put the skimmer cup back on the next morning before the lights go back on.
*If everything is going well. It is good to wait and see how the tank is doing for awhile before trying this. The whole point here is that you don't want to change anything too fast, because nothing good happens quickly in this hobby. (Another method to grind up amino acid pills in the next batch of food; however Bisck found that it sometimes causes diatom outbreaks in his tank"
